Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall